Empowered Patients Motivate Clinic to Seek Additional Resources
2-10-10
With extra support from their nursing staff, the physicians at Duke Family Medical Center have successfully empowered their Black patients to take control of their health, without extending the…Read More |
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Physicians may need more than cultural competency training to combat racial disparities in diabetes care
1-05-10
Providing cultural competency training and performance report cards for physicians may not be enough to significantly improve the health of African-American diabetic patients, according to a study published in the…Read More |
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Finding Answers Launches Fourth Call for Proposals (CFP) to Evaluate Disparities Interventions in Multiple Sites
12-17-09
Download the CFP Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), is requesting proposals to evaluate interventions with the potential to…Read More |
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Concurrent Peer Review Positively Received by Patients and Providers
12-01-09
Amna Idiris, a research assistant for Westside Health Services, Inc. talks about how the Concurrent Peer Review process used in their intervention was positively received by both patients and providers.…Read More |
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Finding Answers Awards More Than $1.5 Million to Evaluate Interventions Aimed at Reducing Gaps in Health Care Among U.S. Racial and Ethnic Groups
10-19-09
Seven Grants Given to Organizations with Demonstrated Abilities to Develop and Test Interventions to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (Chicago) — Finding Answers: Disparities Research for…Read More |
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Researchers Discuss How Patient-Centered Care Can Reduce Disparities at Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting
5-14-09
Patient-centered approaches to reducing racial and ethnic disparities are promising, yet few organizations know how to create, implement, and evaluate them. During a workshop presented at the Society of General…Read More |
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Finding Answers leads Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Special Session on Health Disparities at 2008 State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research
10-03-08
Nurse-led patient-centered interventions within the context of wider systems change show great promise in reducing health disparities. Because nurses often spend more time with patients and can provide critical care…Read More |
